The ambitious desalination project at Nemmeli near Chennai that would augment the city’s water supply was likely to be commissioned in June next year as the project was “well on track”, a top official of a company which has bagged the project said on Friday.
Chennai-based VA TECH Wabag had secured the Rs 1,033 crore project which was formally inaugurated on February 2010.
“As far as the engineering and order for long delivery items are concerned 90 per cent of the works and 75 per cent of the civil works have been completed so far..”, VA TECH Wabag Managing Director Rajiv Mittal told reporters here.
“So far there has been no escalation of costs...We have managed to control them”, he said. Stating that they were “well on track” on the project, he said this year by October the pipe laying work into the Bay of Bengal would begin. “If the sea is not rough and with the onset of monsoon we hope we will be able to put the pipe into the sea..”, he said.
After completion of the laying of pipeline, it is likely to be commissioned by end of June 2012, he said.
Infrastructure company Larsen and Toubro is engaged in the laying of pipelines, he said.
“After commissioning of the project, we will be able to supply 100MLD of water. This would predominantly cater to the southern parts of Chennai” he said.
